Favourite-ever Ipswich Witches teams... FANS HAVE THEIR SAY

Ipswich Witches fans have certainly been in full voice as regards their favourite-ever Witches 1-7 (and reserves). Here are more of your nominations. Do you agree or not? Send me your favourite 1-7 in. Remember, favourite, not best-ever.. mike.bacon@archant.co.uk

Believe or not I was actually at the meeting away to Reading when the Witches won the league in October 1984 (Reading 32 Witches 46) I've just dug out the programme!

I don't remember too much about the meeting, but I do remember after winning the league we were on the centre green celebrating with the other Witches fans and riders. We were going head to head against Belle Vue that season with John Berry our team manager. The team also won the double when we beat Belle Vue in the KO Cup final.

I was with my mum, dad, and younger brother at Reading, who was only six-years-old - I was 10.

The 'Cowboy' John Cook. Has there ever been a more extravagant rider for the Witches? Photo: ARCHANT

I remember all the riders and had their badges sewn on my jacket.. (which I still have..)

And I remember being at Bradford at the World Final cheering on Cook and Niemi, the year Erik Gundersen won it.

A popular Pole. Robert Miskowiak, looking at a photo of him, taken by Steve Waller, after he catapaulted over the fence at Oxford one night.... He wasn't hurt, in fact he got up and won the re-run!!! That's speedway riders! Photo: SIMON PARKER

Niemi scored around 10 points that day and I remember Cook slipping off in his opening ride which I was gutted about.. (As a kid Cookie was my favourite)

Although I've got to know the likes of Scott Nicholls, Danny King and Cameron Heeps, etc., through my work, I'd say the team above in is my fondest memory celebrating the league win with my brother, mum and dad.

1 Tomasz Gollob: The most entertaining rider I have ever seen around Foxhall. Around the boards for four laps and never really got the recognition he deserved by the national television coverage. It was a great moment watching him secure his world title in 2010. A true legend.

2 Kim Jansson: Love the way he used to approach everything with a positive attitude, even when things were not going well. I used to love the passion and delight he showed on his victory laps around the stockcar track.

3 Tony Rickardsson: The best rider to ride at Foxhall in my lifetime. It was a delight to watch him.

4 Danny King: He can gate, overtake and is a master of the Foxhall track. A model of consistency and a great leader.

5 Chris Louis: So consistent for such a long period of time and carried the team through the difficult years of the early 2000s.

Ipswich riders Billy Sanders (left) and Tony Davey in the pits at Foxhall before the start of the first match between Ipswich and Hackney in March 1972. Picture Dave Kindred

6 Nico Covatti: He is the closest I have seen to Gollob around Foxhall. A master of the outside line and sometimes I hoped he would miss the start so I would watch him blast around the outside picking off his rivals.

7 Scott Nicholls - Another member of the treble winning team. We saw him develop into a top quality rider before our own eyes. A local lad and hopefully he will have one last season with the team before he retires.

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